I have a PC which runs Lubuntu 14.10 without a monitor. The user is autologged in. I have created a Sysvinit script and installed it on /etc/init.d. My script amongst other things, starts a jar file ...

At the beginning, the shell was the only interface for the User, He was able to send through it signals to other processes or launch them or even directly sending calls to the Kernel.
Yet the shell ...

I was assigned a CentOS VM that I manipulate through Putty. Everything I do to it is by command line so far, and I have admin rights to it. The VM is stored in the corporate data center served up by ...

I am working with a remote server with CentOS 6.5 and I have ssh access to it. Since I need to work with some graphic stuff (mostly testing webpages) I needed a rdp access to test and install a few ...

My completely up-to-date Arch Linux install has suddenly began to show only a few characters of text. From what I can tell the visible characters are g, x, v, f, m, n, d, U, 0,W, \, and |. All other ...

Thinking that CPU and RAM information would clutter the primary default panel, I decided to create a separate side panel to display it optionally. I then set the panel to hide at 0 pixels and can no ...

I have been in a situation where my desktop has crashed and become unresponsive. (In my case it was the Cinnamon DE, and I have yet to try cinnamon --replace from the commandline, BTW)
I was using a ...

While playing around with Ubuntu Server, which does not have any kind of desktop environment installed by default, I did "apt-get install startx; startx", which showed me a console in a white box, and ...

I'm training myself to use XMONAD or something of the sort, but in order to do that, I need to know, from terminal, how to open the following programs:
Bluefish Editor
Settings (I'm using Ubuntu but ...

I need to install Debian wheezy. I don't need to install all the packages. I tried netinst image, but I have no internet connection in my laptop to download a GUI. Is there a CD/DVD image of Debian ...

Kubuntu's GUI (like here), for locale settings is very detailed. Is there a way to get a similar, detailed GUI outside of Kubuntu without installing the entire KDE desktop environment?
I have here a ...

I made a small program for work at a tech support job. Consists mostly of hotkeys to autotype out commonly used commands (Instead of typing passowrd 50 times, just press your desired hotkey) and an ...

I'm not able to install Backtrack 5 R3 on my HP Compaq d350. It has Windows 7 with no graphics and sound drivers. Now I want to use hard only for Backtrack. When it comes to type startx it gives an ...

Unfortunately, Gnome's nautilus address bar is not showing the full path in its top bar. How can I change this behavior?
I'm looking for a solution to display a editable text field instead, like in ...

I need a way to make thunderbird prevent me from sending mails by mistake. For special, important mails, I would like to be able to individually block the send button, or make thunderbird ask me for ...

I am trying to script one repetitive operation within an open-source software, FSLView to be specific. The operations are extremely straightforward in the GUI, I mean just several clicks.
However, I ...

Till now I was creating GUI on windows using c++ on visual studio, now I decided to move on linux. So I install Qt creator from here . Now I follow a video tutorial for creating gui application with ...

I just read that Symphony OS has an wonderful concept, called Orchestra,
where applications (can be even written HTML + JAVAscript) can be ran via a reduced localhost server and a leaned down mozilla ...

I am trying out the timeout command and would like to know if there is a kill signal that a GUI program, whether a graphics desktop or a terminal program will treat as the user terminating the program ...

I'm a former windows user and just started using ubuntu. On windows, we had two great softwares: TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit. Both are so good programs that they allow us to do everything like commit, ...

I was making a GUI application to manage users and groups in Linux!
I'm done with the part where it creates a new user, but stuck with the part where it gives the newly created user a new password.
...

I'm using MariaDB instead of MySQL in Slackware 14.1, and I need a graphic manager like MySQL Workbench. Can anyone suggest me something?
I tried using MySQL WorkBench but it could not connected with ...

I'm using Linux Mint 14 and have faced the following problem recently:
after removing and installing some of the software (torchat and LibreOffice to be exact) and rebooting I found myself not being ...

I have Fedora 12 OS in my 32 bit Intel pentium D computer, 1GB RAM, inbuilt Intel corporation 82945G/GZ graphics. Till yesterday it was working fine..
When I started this morning my system is frozen ...

I plan to switch to Linux as my sole OS in a few weeks/months, and I'm not sure what I'd like to do.
I've used CentOS Server, but only in CLI mode, and Ubuntu Desktop.
I liked Ubuntu, but Unity was ...

I tried several Times to install multiple Versions of XBMCbuntu but it's always booting into Terminal without GUI. When I try to start XBMC I get a long list of Graphics errors. I'm installing it on ...